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Earnings Preview: Archive

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The Earnings Picture Refuses to Weaken

With inflation steadily coming down and the labor market staying fairly strong, many in the market are starting to bet on the 'soft landing' scenario.

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Breaking Down The Big 7 Tech Players' Outsized Roles

This elite group of 7 mega-cap companies currently accounts for 27.5% of the S&P 500 index's total market capitalization and is expected to bring in 16.2% of the index's total earnings this year.

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An Early Glance Into Q2 Earnings

While 2023 Q2 estimates have come down, the magnitude of negative revisions compares favorably to what we saw in the comparable periods of previous quarters.

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Q1 Earnings: Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) Sustain Momentum?

The analysts covering Nvidia (NVDA) are struggling to come up with superlatives to describe the chipmaker's blockbuster quarterly results. Can the AI momentum sustain?

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Dissecting Retail Earnings and Shifting Consumer Spending Trends

It is no surprise that the combined weight of elevated inflation, rising interest rates, and uncertainty about the economy has forced consumers to change their spending behavior.

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Retail Earnings Looming: What to Expect

There is undoubtedly stress at the lower end of income distribution. Given this development, one can intuitively project moderation in consumer spending as the economy further slows down under the weight of tighter monetary conditions.

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Q1 Earnings: Energy Sector in Focus

Crude oil prices appear to be reversing last week's losses, but prices are down significantly from the year-earlier level. What does this tell us?

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Breaking Down Big Tech Earnings

Mega-cap technology giants have been undeniably strong in 2023, outperforming the S&P 500 handily. But how were their earnings results?

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Big Tech Earnings Looming: What to Expect

Tech stocks have been standout performers in the market this year, with a combination of favorable developments on the macro front driving momentum. Can the outperformance continue?

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Analyzing Q1 Bank Earnings: Good or Bad?

There was plenty to like in these quarterly results, with higher interest rates helping these big players expand their margins while demand for loans remained strong, helping loan portfolios grow.

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Breaking Down Upcoming Bank Earnings

The Zacks Finance sector, which includes all the banks, is expected to achieve +2.2% higher earnings in 2023 Q1 on +7% higher revenues. Given these expectations, where do banks go from here?

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Analyzing Banking Woes and the Shifting Earnings Landscape

Banks are making headlines for all the wrong reasons in the wake of what appeared to be idiosyncratic issues at the Silicon Valley Bank. Where do we go from here?

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2023 Q1 Earnings Preview: What Are Estimates Telling Us?

The 2022 Q4 earnings reports displayed that contrary to fears of an impending earnings cliff, companies were largely able to protect their bottom lines. Can they do the same in 2023 Q1?

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Breaking Down Retail Earnings and Consumer Spending Trends

It is no surprise that the combined weight of elevated inflation, rising interest rates and uncertainty about the economy have forced consumers to change their spending behavior.

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Previewing Walmart, Target and Retail Sector Earnings

Walmart is expected to report essentially flat earnings on +4.4% higher revenues in its quarterly report before the market opens on Tuesday, February 21st. Let's look at the entire retail sector to see what else to expect...

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Making Sense of Earnings Revisions: Do They Support the Bullish Start to 2023?

With the bulk of the Q4 earnings season behind us, we can now say confidently that the overall picture that emerged from this reporting cycle is good enough; not great, but not bad either...

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Making Sense of Apple, Amazon and Big Tech Earnings

The market's contrasting reactions to December-quarter results from the 'Big 5 Tech Players' - Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta & Microsoft - provides us with useful clues as to what is most important to investors in these mega-cap players.

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Will This Week's Big Tech Earnings Be a Train Wreck?

Broadly speaking, the market's favorable reaction to the Microsoft results is in the same spirit with which it has received all incoming results in the Q4 earnings season. Now let's see what's next...

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Making Sense of the Early Q4 Results: Is An Earnings Cliff Coming?

By the end of this week, we will have seen quarterly results from about 28% of all S&P 500 members and will have a very good sense of whether the earnings-cliff narrative has started unfolding or been further pushed out.

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Plenty of Positives in Big Bank Earnings: What's Next?

The market liked what it saw in the fourth quarter releases from JPMorgan (JPM), Bank of America (BAC), Citigroup (C), and even Wells Fargo (WFC).

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Are We Headed for an Earnings Cliff?

To get a sense of what is currently expected, take a look at the chart below that shows current earnings and revenue growth expectations for the S&P 500 index for 2022 Q3 and the following three quarters.

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Breaking Down Retail Earnings That Highlight Slowing Consumer Spending

It is no surprise that the combined weight of elevated inflation, rising interest rates and uncertainty about the economy have forced consumers to change their spending behavior.

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Previewing Retail Sector Earnings as Inventory Issues Linger

The market seems to believe, based on its treatment of the two stocks, that Walmart is further along in addressing its inventory issue than Target.

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3 Things We Learned from the Q3 Earnings Season

The picture that emerged from the Q3 earnings season wasn't great, but it wasn't bad either. To that end, here are the three things we learned from the Q3 earnings season.

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Making Sense of Big Tech Earnings After Amazon and Meta Tumble

The earnings bombshells from Amazon and Meta and sub-par releases from Alphabet and Microsoft have forced us all to revisit our long-held assumptions about the sustainability of these technology leaders' earnings power...

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